Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-21


begun closing up for this season, and the
patronage OF that portion is joining those
in the northern sections OF tue State.
At Orlando Dolph Edwards has sold his
interest in the Daily Record to Charles
COuseu, Charles y Winner taking the edl-
t0rIal chair. COusen Is business mana
get.
The county school board has estab.
lished a colored school 1t Tavarcs, with
A. +. Shepherd, Green Hart and 7. K.
! Hanson as trustees and r. ID. Jordan as
teacher.
A large party of gentlemen from Ken
lucky and adjoining States. who have
been looking over the prospects OF farm
ing in Florida, arrived in Gainesville
Friday and are registered at the Airing
ton.
AT Gainesville A. j. Macarthur and one
or two others have bought nearly all the
shares in the Central City Ice and Colo
! Storage Company. some Improvements
in the way of additional condensing ma
chinery will shortly be placed In the fac
tory.
Fred NJ. Cole, who for some time past
has beenrunning general merchandise
store in Hawthorn, assigned Friday TO +.
! NJ. jolly Tor the benefit of his creditors.
! Liabilities, SO. 800; assets, about the same.
/ Accounts and pushing creditors forced
/ the assignment.
! The little house used as q colored Bap-
/ list church, in the bottom, near Quincy,
| was burned down last Tuesday night. 1t
! Is generally thought TO have been the
work OF an incendiary. There are two
factions in the membership, and, not long
/ ago preacher was deposed and another
! substituted. This action augmented the
! sectional strife.
! n aTio ~
! passed through Live Oak last Saturday
/ night with a prisoner who had committed
! a crime OF assault with intent to murder
! 10 that county eleven years ago and
| eSCaUed to Florida. The prisoners name
! was McReary, and he had been living for
| the last several years in the neighborhOod
! of Old Town Hammock, no doubt fully
! under the impression that he had found "a
refuge where his sin would not ind MIN
| OUT
The sales Of straw berries, for 80 far in
| the season, have been highly s8tisfac tory
| to Clay county growers, Notwithstanding
/ reports OF an overstocked market. A
| prominent grower says that his average
/ sales, for berries shipped by rail, have
Melted him 26c per quart. OF course
these prices cannot DO continued to the
! end, but the receipts to date have paid
| ait expenses incurred in growing the
| IT'S, except the cost of picking aud mar
! keting.
AT Brooksville last Monday A. l..
Lands, Jr., had several women arrested
| for being occupants and keeping house
| OF III fame. There was considerable OPP
! position to the prosecution, and the trial
occupied three days, some gross indigni-
| ties being offered Lands by unknown
parties one night during the trial. He
No tod a la a. sa..
| ACCUSED. Thursday night some scoun-
drels caught Landis' horse, clipped his
name and tail, and cut of one ear smooth
| to the head. The City Council met Friday
and offered 5000 reward for the arrest and
| conviction of the guilty parties. The
good people feel much outraged, and
Lands says he is determined in his &C
ton.
Later advices from Millview place t he
lumber loss by Thursdays fire at 3, 800, 900
feet, valued at $4,000. The mill was
valued at sec, 900, and insured for $50, 900;
the insurance on the lumber is $4,000.
The burned mill was built about four
years ago, and had a cutting capacity OF
$4,000 feet per day. The burning of this
mill leaves but one mill to furnish busi-
ness for the Pensacola and PerdidO rail-
road, which, some years ago, was fed by
i've mills running night and day. All OF
| and was awaiting shipment. Mr..
| George W. Robinson, the owner,
arrived in Pensacola from Mobile,
and went to MtllYiew. 1t is not known
that be will rebuild the mill, and it is
thought that he Will transfer the whole
0fhis lumber operations to Moss Point,
Miss, at which place he has extensive
milling interests. The steamer and fire.
men from Pensacola were Instrumental
| in saving many millions of feet of lum-
Der; they arrived too late TO save the mill
and the lumber close adjoining it. The
slab conveyer was built directly north
from the mill, and high wind was blow
ing from the north when the fire broke
out. The sparks from the burning mill
were carried clean over the old mill, set
ting fire to the shantIes in the negro
quarters, many Of which were destroyed.
At FernRndina, about II O'Clock Thurs
day noon, fire was discovered on the roof
of the large building at Cedar and Second
streets, occupied by the late William
LaWtey as cotton GIN, cotton and seed
warehouse. Owing to the infammablo
nature OF the building and contents the
entire premises were soon in sheet OF
flame, and past the possibility of saving.
A gale Of wind from the northwest was
blowing, and within an hour from the
first alarm the fire had spread through
the dry grass and underbrush to the
southeast, on the outskirts of the city,
extending over 200 acres or more of ter
ritOry. This space is largely filled with
negro cabins, the occupants OF which
turned out with will to fight
the flames. Several dwellings in the
southern part OF the town were at times
in great danger, but were saved by the
efforts Of the occupants and friendly help,
but at the expense of numerous fences
aud some sheds, etc. The grass and
brush continued burning nearly all
night. 1t was fortunate that the fire
originated in the southern part of the
toNn, Tor If it had been in the northern
part its extent could hardly be estimated.
Tue loss was $4,000 on machinery, So 900
on stock, including thirty-one bales sea
island cotton, and about $4,000 ON build
ings. so far asss now known, there was
but 81, 500 total insurance, that being held
by Mr.. Lawtey's estate.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A few flakes OF snow fell in Sumter